Jimmy Carter's Cancer Is Gone; Former US President Made Surprise Announcement During Sunday School Lecture

Monday, December 7th, 2015

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is now cancer-free, a friend and former church members told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Sunday. Carter, 91, announced in August doctors found four small tumors on his brain. Family members have recently said the 39th president was recovering well after undergoing radiation treatment.

Carter was teaching a Sunday school class at Maranatha Baptist Church in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, when he made the surprise announcement, said Jill Stuckey, a close friend of the Carter family and a board member of the Friends of Jimmy Carter National Historic Site in Georgia.

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